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James C. Klotter. Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood: Understanding the Life and Death of Richard Reid. (Southern Biography.) Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 197. $34.95.
This book is a gem. James C. Klotter uses the caning and subsequent thrashing with a cowhide whip by attorney John Jay Cornelison of Superior Court Judge and "Christian gentleman" Richard Reid, on April 16, 1884, to explore not only Reid's life and death but also the clashing values of "forgiveness and forbearance" on the one hand, and "revenge and retribution" on the other, values that demand our attention and thought as much in the twenty-first century as in the late nineteenth.	1
In reconstructing Reid's public triumphs and his little-known private difficulties, in explaining his death and its meaning, and in placing all these in context, Klotter draws on his own extensive work as a historian as well as on an array of primary and secondary materials in the fields of history, law, gender studies, sociology, psychology, and medicine. He includes brief but comprehensive summaries of a variety of relevant topics in the late nineteenth-century, including the criminal justice system and politics in Kentucky, the idea of honor in the South, the crisis and competing concepts of American manhood, and the extent and nature of personal violence and views of it, North as well as South. The author is never heavy handed in the use of any of his sources; instead, he renders Reid's life and death as deftly, clearly, and succinctly as he does the segments that place them in context.	. . .

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